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(impaled) - bob

""The Man of Steel didn't go down with just two officers, it took seven officers!" witness Ryan McCormick said. "He was putting up a good fight. Little kids were like, 'Mommy, it's Superman!' "... The incident occurred when cops approached Katsnelson, who was panhandling, and asked him for ID. When Katsnelson said he didn't have any ID, cops continued to ask him questions, sources said. That's when Katsnelson punched the female officer, sources said. "He freaked out and punched the girl cop in the face," Batman said later. Cops cuffed Batman, actually Frank Frisoli, but let him go because he didn't cause any problems, he told The Post. " - bob from Bookmarklet

Spiderman i've seen many times. That'll be a challenge for the NYPD - Christopher

"Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, monitored seismic activity on the fault's central section between July 2001 and February 2009 and recorded more than 2,000 tremors. The tremors lasted mere minutes to nearly half an hour. Unlike earthquakes, tremors occur deeper below the surface and the shaking lasts longer. During the study period, two strong earthquakes hit—a magnitude-6.5 in 2003 and a magnitude-6.0 a year later. Scientists noticed the frequency of the tremors doubled after the 2003 quake and jumped six-fold after 2004. Tremor episodes persist today. Though the frequency of tremors have declined since 2004, scientists are still concerned because they are still at a level that is twice as high as before the 2003 quake." - bob from Bookmarklet

"According to state law, a dog can be considered a "nuisance" if it barks for sustained periods of more than 30 minutes or during the night hours, disturbing the peace and quiet of a neighborhood." - bob from Bookmarklet

"Two suspected members of the MS-13 gang have been arrested and a third is being sought in the Daly City slaying of a 21-year-old college student who was shot because his friends were wearing red - a color claimed by a rival gang - police said Thursday....On the night they were attacked, police said, they were listening to loud rap music as they drove toward a restaurant in a Buick Regal. About 7 p.m., while the group was stopped at a light on John Daly Boulevard next to the Daly City BART Station, Velasquez and Balam jumped out of a stolen Honda Civic and sprayed the Buick with bullets from an assault rifle and a .380-caliber pistol, Morena said. The men got back into the Honda, which was driven by Herrera, and sped onto Interstate 280, police said. Frias, the Buick driver and another friend were shot. The driver managed to steer 2 miles to Seton Medical Center as the passenger who was unhurt called for help. Doctors met the young men in front of the hospital, but Frias was already dead. " - bob from Bookmarklet

"When someone yelled, "The Han are coming!" children scampered indoors and women ran shrieking through a backstreet market with carts of watermelons, shops selling cold soft drinks and smoky grills with sizzling lamb kebabs. Within seconds, the men armed themselves with spears stashed behind doors and under market stands. The weapons were long poles with knives and meat cleavers tied to the ends. Piles of rocks were placed across the street for ammunition. One Uighur graduate student who called himself Memet greeted a foreign reporter in English by saying, "Welcome to the jungle!"" - bob from Bookmarklet

snake and black widdow: http://ff.im/8rks - Ross Miller

haha, nice ross - bob

"According to scientists, given the incentive of food, racing pigeons can be trained to study the colour, pattern and texture of paintings and evaluate them like an art critic. Their experiment was divided into two halves: the first saw four pigeons placed in a chamber with a computer monitor displaying watercolour and pastel paintings by schoolchildren. The paintings were divided into 'good' and 'bad' categories by 11 adults, including an art teacher, depending on whether the images were clear and precise. The pigeons were shown some of the paintings from each category and rewarded with food when they pecked at the good pictures, but not the bad ones. They were then presented with a mixture of new and old paintings from both categories and the researchers noted the birds consistently pecked at the 'good' paintings more often." - bob from Bookmarklet

I wonder if the pigeons make better critics than humans. - Gabe

""You may have green shoots, whatever you want to call them, you may have temporary relief, but you are still in a world that's breaking," Taleb said on "Squawk Box." Anything that's fragile like the financial system will eventually crash, he said. "We're in the middle of a crash," Taleb said. "So if I'm going to forecast something, it is that it's going to get worse, not better." The government needs to deleverage debt and not try stimulus packages that will inflate assets, he said. "What makes me very pessimistic in not seeing any leadership or awareness on parts of government on what has to be done, which is deleverage $40-to-$70 trillion," Taleb said." - bob from Bookmarklet

"As an example, Taleb said banks should not be sending demands for larger and larger sums from homeowner in arrears on their mortgage. Instead the bank should offer to lower the monthly payments in return for part-ownership of the property. "People would be able to start from scratch on a healthy basis. You don't want to wait for foreclosure," he said." - bob

Nice! - misca mihaela

"Argon 1894 - They discovered the gas by comparing the molecular weights of nitrogen prepared by liquefaction from air and nitrogen prepared by chemical means. It is the first noble gas to be isolated." - bob from Bookmarklet

I'm a little sad that Unununium now has a real name: 111 = Roentgenium - Clare Dibble

"Despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA." - bob from Bookmarklet

I'm especially surprised by NyQuil, which combines both Tylenol and alcohol, for an extra liver-killing kick. - Paul Buchheit

"Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50. Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m." - bob from Bookmarklet

Although I'm glad that he won't be making anymore horrible infomercials, it's said that he died. He leaves behind an adorable young daughter and his show Pitchmen is actually fairly interesting. - Gabe

"Recent studies have shown that the consumption of an alcoholic drink prior to a meal reduces the GI of the meal by approximately 15%." - bob from Bookmarklet

Now that's an interesting version. Before, the version on alcohol intake effect was that it blocks the liver's sugar production, thus taking away the 'base' level for some time - Alex

When I get home Wednesday I will search out this photo in full size. (travelling withonly the iPhone) - Chris Heath

"We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50. Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back." - bob from Bookmarklet

"A Columbus firefighter admits that he took his two dogs to the basement, tied them up and blasted them with a rifle so he and a girlfriend could vacation without paying to board the animals....Firefighter David P. Santuomo, 43, pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of animal cruelty and one count of possession of a criminal tool -- for taping a 2-liter plastic bottle onto the gun as a makeshift silencer. He was convicted of "needlessly killing ... a companion animal" on Dec. 3, according to the charges filed 10 minutes before the hearing in Municipal Court. " - bob from Bookmarklet

"A plume of smoke, ash and steam soars five miles into the sky from an erupting volcano. The extraordinary image was captured by the crew of the International Space Station 220 miles above a remote Russian island in the North Pacific. The round hole in the clouds is thought to have been caused by the shockwave of the initial explosion. At the centre lies the billowing mushroom tower of grey and brown ash." - bob from Bookmarklet

Volcano pic's are cool but the "dark molecular cloud" is way cooler - Shane

"The 86-year-old TV personality and former late-night sidekick died this morning surrounded by his family at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in California, his agent Howard Bragman told NBCLA." - bob from Bookmarklet

Step 2: place one drop of medication in cat's eye. - Tudor Bosman

Step 3: call the nearest emergency room, as you will need stitches. - Tudor Bosman

"WASHINGTON - A Metro train smashed into the back of another at the height of the Monday evening rush hour, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others as cars from the trailing train jackknifed into the air and fell atop the first." - bob from Bookmarklet

http://www.wtop.com/... http://www.wtop.com/... - bob

The shrimp snaps a specialized claw shut to create a cavitation bubble that generates acoustic pressures of up to 80 kPa at a distance of 4 cm from the claw. The pressure is strong enough to kill small fish...The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing cavitation bubble. As it collapses, the cavitation bubble reaches temperatures of over 5,000 K http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - bob

Cool! The water jet moves so fast that the pressure behind it drops below the vapor pressure of water, creating a vacuum bubble. - Gabe

"At 6:42 p.m., dozens of drunken spectators at Hole 10 taunted Woods as he prepared to start his third round in the rain. "We're on Long Island, baby, where men are men!" one fan yelled. "Put that umbrella down!"...Minutes later, a group of fans greeted Fred Funk at the 10th hole by shouting his last name as an obscenity." - bob from Bookmarklet

Strong island, baby! - Ana

"While bound neutrons in stable nuclei are stable, free neutrons are unstable; they undergo beta decay with a lifetime of just under 15 minutes (885.7 ± 0.8 s).[4] Free neutrons are produced in nuclear fission and fusion." - bob from Bookmarklet

"Edward Teller, who was perhaps the most ardent supporter of the development of the hydrogen bomb, was in Berkeley, California, at the time of the shot. He was able to receive first notice that the test was successful by observing a seismometer, which picked up the shock wave travelling through the earth all the way from the South Pacific test site.[4] In his memoirs, Teller wrote that he immediately sent an unclassified telegram to his colleagues at Los Alamos which contained only the words—for security purposes—"It's a boy."" - bob from Bookmarklet

"The existence of a maximum in binding energy in medium-sized nuclei is a consequence of the trade-off in the effects of two opposing forces which have different range characteristics. The attractive nuclear force (strong nuclear force), which binds protons and neutrons equally to each other, has a limited range due to a rapid exponential decrease in this force with distance. However, the repelling electromagnetic force, which acts between protons to force nuclei apart, falls off with distance much more slowly (as the inverse square of distance). For nuclei larger than about four nucleons in diameter, the additional repelling force of additional protons more than offsets any binding energy which results between further added nucleons as a result of additional strong force interactions; such nuclei become less and less tightly bound as their size increases, though most of them are still stable. Finally, nuclei containing more than 209 nucleons (larger than about 6 nucleons in diameter) are all too large to be stable, and are subject to spontaneous decay to smaller nuclei." - bob from Bookmarklet

"A 23-year-old woman is accused of getting friend to kill her Jack Russell terrier and skinning the puppy to make a belt out of its hide. Krystal Lynn Lewis and Austin Michael Mullins, 26, were being held Friday in the Muskogee County jail on $25,000 bail each. They were charged with one felony count of cruelty to animals. "We're talking about a 6- or 7-week-old defenseless puppy," said sheriff's deputy George Roberson. "That's pretty heinous and sadistic." A Muskogee County judge ordered a mental competency hearing for both defendants. Lewis wanted the puppy, named Poplin, killed because it was a gift from a female ex-lover with whom she doesn't get along, said Muskogee County sheriff's deputy George Roberson. Roberson said Mullins shot the terrier 10 times with a .22-caliber pistol. Lewis skinned the animal at her apartment and nailed the hide to a board" - is it completely illegal to kill animals now unless you work at an animal shelter? - bob from Bookmarklet

Maybe the vets just don't like having competition :) - Paul Buchheit